Monday, 19 April 2010

I went down to visit a good friend of mine Harry Fulcher a few days ago and took some pictures of him. Harry taught me how to play the saxophone and about music in general, he's such a great teacher and made it really good fun to learn. He generally has a brilliant approach to life, but unfortunately has been diagnosed with motor neurone disease that is starting to affect his playing. None-the-less Harry is still cracking on and recording loads of new material, plus continues to teach many others in the same enthusiastic way he taught me.

Find out more about Harry and listen to some of his performances here:

A little while back I'd been wanting to do a big shoot for quite some time and Bristol University students union was running a motion competition. So I thought I would take that as inspiration for a shoot. With the help of my girlfriend Olga we came up with some simple and interesting ideas to work on.

However, these ideas involved large amounts of material moving around Olga (who was modelling for the shoot) whilst she posed. Getting the silk flowing nicely behind would be a challenge and with me stuck behind the camera and Olga was posing I needed help. Luckily I had a great team for the shoot and they worked damn hard with the silks to get them just how I wanted them. Alex was a brilliant assistant and Sophie who did Olga's make-up and hair also did a great job flinging around the material. Thanks guys!